Best Ways To Get More Likes On Facebook

When you look closely, it becomes clear that both clicks and Facebook ads are equally useless.

That you can not only buy friends on Facebook, but also Likes and Followers, is no longer a secret. But the video by Derek Muller of Veritable, which is currently making the round in the social networks, again clarifies so much.

The biggest source of revenue for Facebook is advertising. It was only last year that Facebook made more than five billion Euros in sales. Now there are two ways you can make lucrative advertising on Facebook as a user. Legal and illegal.

THE LEGAL WAY

BBC correspondent Rory Cellar-Jones has once more looked at how valuable a like is on Facebook. For the experiment, he created a fictitious company profile called "Virtual Bagel" on Facebook. The profile is no more than the tempting sentence. "We send bagels over the internet-simply download and enjoy".

To see if anybody would give a like-minded and even empty page, he decided to use the Facebook offer of the paid presentation of posts - the Facebook ads. He paid 100 dollars (about 74 Euros) and after a few days "Virtual Bagel" had got a whopping 3000 Likes from people from all over the world. Stupid only, that the people who gave the page virtually their taste agreement, actually did not exist.

On closer inspection, Rory Cellar-Jones then realized that the fans of the virtual Bagel were themselves with almost empty profiles, but at the same time thousands of  Facebook profiles had a friendly "Like". Thousands! It also turned out that most of these clicks came from emerging countries, which would normally have been a sure sign that a click farm was in the game.

However, Rory had bought all his Likes over the legal way provided by Facebook. After the story came to the media in July 2012, 83,000,000 million fake profiles were deleted in August, which, incidentally, only 9 percent of the users at the time.

THE ILLEGAL WAY

But you can also consult pages like activelikes.com. Sites such as these use so-called click farmers, which are located in emerging markets such as India, the Philippines, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Indonesia and Bangladesh. In these countries the clicking employees are paid a dollar for clicking on the "Like" button 1000 times. Facebook prohibits this kind of like-procurement and tries to track down and prevent such methods. In the explanations of the in-house help documents it says:

If the Facebook spam system detects that your page is linked to this type of activity, limits are set for your site to prevent further violations of our declaration of rights and obligations.

The likes generated by clicks are therefore worthless, because the users are not really interested in the content and also do not interact with them. Instead, you should pay via Facebook's own promo platform for the Likes-indirectly, by placing your own page more prominently.

How do the contributions of a Facebook page come to the fan? The posts are distributed first only to small groups of the fans, to see if this small part interacts. If the comment is shared, divided and 'geliked', the contribution is more intense. This is an attempt to bring only really relevant content to the masses.

But if the share of the bought non-active Likes is particularly large, it becomes increasingly unlikely that the 'real Likes' will also see the contribution. And if this does not happen, then is not interacted and the contribution is not spread further. In the end, one reaches much more, actually interested persons on Facebook, if one is satisfied with its small Like number.

And the moral of the story? Without content manager, 'liked' it's not-or something like that.